This Spring, Tate Modern will celebrate the provocative and boundary-pushing career of Leigh Bowery - one of the most ...

This spring, Tate Modern will present a major survey exhibition of the work of Do Ho Suh, marking the first major solo ...

Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry (1757) connected the sublime with experiences of awe, terror and danger. Burke saw nature as the most sublime object, capable ...

Contemporary artists have extended the vocabulary of the sublime by looking back to earlier traditions and by engaging with aspects of modern society. They have located the sublime in not only the ...

The sublime in art, it has often been suggested, starts with Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry (1757). Before this, so the conventional narrative goes, the sublime was a notion that applied only to ...

In 1886 the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared the sublime out of date. A number of artists of early and mid-twentieth century continued to engage with concepts of the sublime, though often in ...

This is one of four reports produced by researchers in the project Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum. Each offers a perspective from one of four practices that are changing ...

Robert Bevan and Stanislawa de Karlowska settle at 14 Adamson Road in the Swiss Cottage area of London. Albert Rutherston contributes two pictures to the New English Art Club and meets Walter Sickert ...

The Camden Town Group was composed of sixteen artists, judged by an inner core to be ‘the best and the most promising of the day’. Controversially, women were not allowed to join, though they formed ...

Harun Farocki (1944-2014) was a pioneering filmmaker and theorist. He made more than 90 films ranging from experimental documentaries to large-scale installations. His work often explores themes of ...

Instead of making art that looked like people or things, Hepworth began to make sculptures and drawings using abstract shapes. She was inspired by nature and the world around her. She remembered ...